Teachers’ Efforts in Effective Classroom Management in English Language Teaching at Basic Level

Abstract

This research study entitled Teachers’ Efforts in Effective Classroom Management in English Language Teaching at Basic Levelaimed to analyse the teachers’ efforts in effective classroom management in English language teaching at Basic level and find out the challenges faced by the teachers in practicing effective classroom management in English language teaching at Basic level. Keeping the objectives into considerations, four basic levelEnglish teachers from two community schools were selected as the sample by using purposive sampling strategy. Data for this study were collected through classroom observation and structured interview with the selected participants/teachers. I visited and revisited the study area to collect and validate the data. After the collection of the data they were analysed and interpreted descriptively through phenomenology research design. Findings of the study showed that ELT teachers decorated the classrooms and arranged the students’ seats as a part of their efforts towards physical design of the classroom. Teachers created simple rules and routines which needed to be followed by the students as well as teachers. Similarly, there were two kinds of relationship: they were students-students relationship and teacher-students relationship. Likewise,teachers gave clear instruction, motivated the students and engaged them in classroom activities. Further, it was found that teachers did not give physical punishment in the name of maintaining discipline but they gave educational treatment as a part of their efforts. This thesis also revealed that teachers’ faced some challenges in practicing effective classroom management such as physical facilities, use of L1 in ELT classrooms, misbehaviourof students, heterogeneous classrooms and lack of teaching materials. This thesis consists of five main chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic in which background of the study, statement of the problem, significance of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter includes the review of both theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the review along with the conceptual framework of the study. The thirdchapter deals with the methods and procedures of the study. It includes design and methods of the study in detail: research population, sample and sampling procedures, data collection tools and techniques, procedures for data collection, data analysis and interpretation proceduresand ethical considerations. The fourth chapter includes analysisof data and interpretation of the results. Then fifth chapter incorporates findings, conclusion and recommendations. Finally, references and appendices were attached.